Substitute for Raised S.B. No. 443 Session Year 2014

AN ACT CONCERNING PESTICIDES ON SCHOOL GROUNDS, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, ATHLETIC FIELDS AND MUNICIPAL GREENS AND BANNING THE SALE AND USE OF GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED LAWN OR TURF SEEDS.

To protect children's health from exposure to toxic lawn pesticides by extending the ban on the use of lawn care pesticides in schools to include schools with students in grades nine to twelve in 2017, and applying current restrictions concerning the application of lawn pesticides at school grounds to the application of pesticides at parks, playgrounds, athletic fields and municipal greens.